How to be a Good Mother-in-Law by Bodleian Library Staff (Editor)
$15.99 NZD
Category: Humour
"Do not march into the drawing-room and, having inspected it, say, "What a nice room, but --" "Do not look at your son steadfastly and then turn to his wife and tell her he is getting thin." "When you wax eloquently on the way to keep soup hot, you are merely asking him to shout on the house tops that h ...Show more
How to be a Good Motorist by Bodleian Library the
$15.99 NZD
Category: Humour
How should a motorist converse with the police? Should you switch off your headlights when another car approaches? What parts of the engine can you fix with a sheet of emery paper, insulating tape and copper wire? The 1920s heralded the age of motoring with the arrival of the 'affordable' Austin Seven a ...Show more
The Heretics: Adventures with the Enemies of Science by Will Storr
$24.99 NZD
Category: Humour
Will Storr was in the tropical north of Australia, excavating fossils with a celebrity creationist, when he asked himself a simple question. Why don't facts work? Why, that is, did the obviously intelligent man beside him sincerely believe in Adam and Eve, the Garden of Eden and a six-thousand-year-old ...Show more
Garfield's Sunday Finest: 35 Years of My Best Sunday Funnies by Jim Davis
$39.99 NZD
Category: Humour
Sunday Is a Fun Day!" """Every Sunday morning, after doing the farm chores, Dad, Mom, Doc (yes, he's real), and I would settle in with the Sunday paper for at least a half hour of chuckling, snorting, and laughing out loud."--Jim Davis"" " Settle in with thirty-five years of the best Garfield Sunday fun ...Show more
Bar-Jutsu: The American Art of Bar Fighting by James Porco
$27.99 NZD
Category: Humour
A pounding headache, mouth dry as the desert, memory loss...and wait, a black eye and a fat lip? You have officially woken up from another night on the town. While there is no known cure for that dastardly headache and cotton mouth, there is now officially a remedy for the black eye and bruises. "Bar-ju ...Show more
Garfield: Life in the Fat Lane (#28) by Jim Davis
$27.99 NZD
Category: Humour | Series: Garfield
A fast-food helping of humor What is it that makes Garfield America's favorite feline? Maybe it's the way he flies through the fat lane without losing his cool or without missing a meal You'll marvel as Garfield finds new ways to evade exercise and beat boredom. But it's nothing that a few airborne sa ...Show more
Peas & Queues: The Minefield of Modern Manners by Sandi Toksvig
$25.99 NZD
Category: Humour
How do you get rid of unwanted guests? What do you do if there's a racket in the quiet carriage? How should you eat peas, and behave in queues? How to behave, like how to punctuate, is an aspect of life that many are no longer taught - and getting it wrong is the stuff of comedy at best and humiliation ...Show more
Kitchen Wit: Quips and Quotes for Cooks and Food Lovers by Jane Brook
$27.99 NZD
Category: Humour | Series: Wit
To paraphrase Mark Twain, if you resist food and drink for the sake of your health, you'll only have your health. But cooks, imbibers and gourmands will savour every mouthful of this feast of wit. With a menu that includes chefs, food writers and classic humorists, you'll be laughing from breakfast to s ...Show more
Where the Wild Mums Are by Katie Blackburn
$24.99 NZD
Category: Humour | Reading Level: very good
The day Mum didn't get dressed and went on strike, Dad called her 'a Wild Thing' and Mum said 'Cook your own dinner' and stomped off upstairs to have a bath . . . In this hilarious, touching homage to Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, a worn-out mum finds herself floating across time and spac ...Show more
It's Always Beer O'clock by UNKNOWN
$17.99 NZD
Category: Humour | Series: Esme
'He was a wise man who invented beer.' Plato Whether you are celebrating the good times, commiserating the bad or simply relaxing with a pint of perfection, there is a drink to see you through every occasion. Raise a glass to this collection of quips and quotes from the world's wisest and wittiest drink ...Show more
Diary of a Mad Diva by Joan Rivers
$30.00 NZD
Category: Humour
You know what she said out loud. Can you imagine what she wrote in her diary? Celebrate the hilarious wit of the great diva Joan Rivers; even her funeral was as glamorous as her. Following up the phenomenal success of her headline-making hit I Hate Everyone, Joan Rivers was at it again. When her daughte ...Show more
Apuglogies: Saying Sorry with Adorable Pugs by Editors Of Ulysses Press
$12.99 NZD
Category: Humour
A funny, heartwarming collection of perforated, tear-out, apology cards featuring super-cute pug photos Everyone messes up sometime. That's easy. It's the apologizing that's hard. Why not avoid that awkward conversation by letting an adorable pug say sorry in a cheeky yet heartfelt card. In Apuglogies, ...Show more